Big flags and little parades: Metro Detroit celebrates July Fourth

8:19 PM,
Jul. 4, 2013

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The 20-by-40-foot flag began its July Fourth spread across three picnic tables behind the VFW Post 6691 in Fraser, but by the end of Independence Day 2013, it would be flying tall from two towering wooden timber poles erected in the adjacent Walter C. Steffens Park.

The giant Stars and Stripes had decorated a baseball backstop in the park, but was taken down when the diamond was replaced with a soccer field. Shortly after 1 p.m., five men slowly unfurled the American flag, which flapped in the strong breeze, unseasonably cool for summer.